Whooaa Nice one Jenny 🙂

Not all King Airs are at Cranwell and was just going on a post on Egoat regarding some Corporals getting licence courses for them..

As for FTRS, that is exactly what I meant, previously when your Service time was up you would depart the RAF and be replaced by other Service personnel.
Now using the losing skills argument they re-employ those staff under the Reserve Service scheme for departing personnel with useful skills.
Wrap it up in any fancy title you want, but 1/6th of your turnover of staff has ceased and as such as they get older and “retire,” the skill set from new blood coming into the BBMF has been degraded, because the replacements for those 5 that would have joined the BBMF and trained up are simply not there, add to that, once you take out of the 30 bods the stores staffing etc, the portion is probably even higher than the 1/6th of the engineering staff…
That is why business, both civil and military need a turnover of staff, newer members joining to replace those leaving at the end of their careers to maintain a throughput of skills being passed on to the next.
Without it you hit crunch time sometime in the future where those staff get to an age where they cannot continue and you find you have a lack of those qualified to take their place.

danjama yes it is me.

The other thing I see a lot where I work, is a lot of ex forces who have been out for years, then due to the recent economic situation coming back in to aircraft maintenance, reducing the input of new blood still further.